The full film is no longer available for free on YouTube, but you can see clips and find out more about where and when it's screening here. "If we keep pushing, keep prodding, and most importantly keep educating the public there's no reason why we can't solve this problem in time," Obama tells DiCaprio at the White House. From the foods you choose at the supermarket to the political mix of the US Senate, so many factors play into the fate of the planet we live on.Īnd countries all have their own issues: while places like the US are trying to switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy, developing nations such as India are still working on getting hundreds of millions of people access to reliable electricity for the first time - and coal, not renewable energy, is currently the cheapest option.Īs DiCaprio admits in the film, he's used up a lot more carbon-producing energy than a lot of the humans on the planet - each of us is in some ways responsible for the mess we're in.Īs you'll see, there's a lot of bad news in Before The Flood, from melting ice to rising temperatures to rising sea levels, but it's not a completely bleak picture - if we take immediate action, there is a way forward. What stands out most from the movie, besides the catastrophic effects that could be coming our way if immediate action isn't taken, is just how widespread and complicated the issue is. You'll see Canadian Arctic fisherman and hunter Jake Awa talk about how he's seen Baffin Island go from huge blocks of hard blue ice to a thin layer of "ice cream-type" ice that melts much faster.Ĭonservationist Farwiza Farhan explains how palm oil plantations are ruining the rainforests of Indonesia, and environmental scientist Johan Rockström discusses how a 3-4☌ global temperature rise will make many parts of the world uninhabitable. President Obama features too, speaking about the Paris climate agreement. There are some recognisable names along the way: Elon Musk pops in to talk about Tesla's batteries and the first Gigafactory built to produce them, while The Revenant director Alejandro Iñárritu explains how he had to move his filming unit halfway around the world just to find some snow cover. The classic story of Romeo and Juliet, set in a modern-day city of Verona Beach.
Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue. DiCaprio and director Fisher Stevens look at the statistics and the real-world impact of rising temperatures, from dying coral reefs to sinking cities - it's a whistle-stop tour of the damage that we're doing right now to the planet.ĭiCaprio speaks to scientists and experts all across the globe about these negative effects and some of the reasons why our world is warming up, including the use of fossil fuels, the impact of the processed meat industry, and deforestation. Romeo + Juliet is a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, and John Leguizamo. "I just want to know how far we've gone, how much damage we've done, and if there's anything we can do to stop it," DiCaprio says at the start of the film. In the film, DiCaprio travels the world, from Greenland to India, looking at the effect climate change has already had on the planet, and the efforts that are underway to put the brakes on it. But it's pretty and earnest in wonderful ways, and that's nothing to scoff at.We were skeptical at first, but it's well worth taking 95 minutes out of your day for. It isn't lush like Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version, either. This adaptation of Romeo and Juliet won't break new ground like Baz Lurhmann's did. Wealthy, selfish, ruthless and powerful, the parents share an enmity that has become the birthright of their offspring. And Westwick's Tybalt seems to relish his role too much. Welcome to Verona Beach, a sexy, violent other-world, neither future nor past, ruled by two rival families, the Montagues and the Capulets. Fellowes' and his cinematographer's take on Juliet is quite obvious, too they encase her in a gauzy, dreamy light - cheap shots that curb the movie's potential. (Director Carlo Carlei doesn't do it any favors, either.) The music is overdone, as are the lingering shots of Booth's handsome face. Booth and Steinfeld may not share a white-hot chemistry, but they are starry-eyed, indeed.ĭownton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes wrote this remake, and it's prone to soap opera-ish flourishes. Steinfeld plays it straight and it suits the film well. She doesn't shortchange the material when it comes to acting, however. She doesn't so much say her lines as mutter them, gobbling up the beautiful poetry. It's too bad that his counterpart, Steinfeld, doesn't.
Booth fares fairly well with the Bard's challenging lines, reciting them with real-life cadence. He's an artist (a broody one, too), a heartfelt romantic and impetuous, driven to grand gestures and wearing shirts barely cosseted. ROMEO AND JULIET's titular hero is the stuff of teen dreams he is made as appealing here as can be.
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